Simple Lives Thursday, 41st Edition

Please read and follow the Simple Lives Thursday bloghop rules

Since Simple Lives Thursday is growing, as a group, the five hosts have decided to set some ground rules in order to keep the integrity of the blog hop.

1. If linking real, traditional and simple recipes, please make sure all ingredients used are whole. Such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes, meats, even sugar. In order to keep the integrity of “nourishing” food, we will delete any recipes that utilize processed, boxed foods. We are definitely not going to be ingredient policeman, however, please note that this is a hop hosted by advocates of the real, local and sustainable food movements.

2. Please link your posts back to one of the hosting blogs. This is a common blog hop courtesy. This link helps build the Simple Lives Thursday community by sending your readers to all of the other participants posts. We all end up sharing and learning from each other.

Now that we’ve set some ground rules… the fun part! We’re excited to share with all of you that we will be choosing five posts from the previous SLT to highlight each week. Those chosen will be promoted and linked on all five host blogs. We — Annette, Wardeh, Alicia, Mare and me — will select five posts each week that resonate with us and that we feel all of our readers should read. As a highlighted post you will also have the chance to win in special giveaways that we will be starting soon — another great reason to link up and share all that you do to live a simple and intentional life!

Featured Posts

1. My Small Steps Toward Sustainability by Seattle Seedling
For many, living a sustainable life can seem daunting and overwhelming. Stacy shows us her journey beginning with small, natural steps.

2. Homemade Produce Bags – Forget the Plastic by The Improbable Farmer
These produce bags are made from recycled t-shirts! They look awesome – and the blogger herself said she just learned to sew, so how hard can they be?

3. Understanding Your Soil with Weed Indicators by the morris tribe
What’s the quality of your soil?  This blogger shares how weeds can indicate the fertility and overall health of your soil.

4. Fettucine with Walnut Basil Pesto and Slow-dried Cherry Tomatoes by Mummy, I can cook!
We love how simple this dish is. She dried her own cherry tomatoes and made the pesto, PLUS homemade sourdough pasta… how much more nourishing and delicious can this dish get?

5. Eggshell Seedlings by Hounds in the Kitchen
A great way to compost your eggshells… plant seeds in them.  All natural and your kids will love it to!

The Simple Lives Thursday Blog Hop

It’s Simple Lives Thursday! My favorite day of the week where you share your tips and recipes for living a simple life. Below you’ll find the linky to add your post to.

Your Hosts

1. Annette from Sustainable Eats
2. Wardeh from GNOWFGLINS
3. Alicia from Culinary Bliss
4. Mare from Just Making Noise
5. Me!

Wherever you choose to post, it will show up on all 5 sites! As a reminder, this blog hop is a way to share with many people your posts on what you are doing to live a simple life. Whether that’s gardening, raising urban chickens, homeschooling, sewing, making your own deodorant, or cleaning supplies… we want to know about it! If you’re into homeopathy, ways to save $ by conserving energy or other ways to live frugally… we want to know about it! If you bike, cook real food, homestead or farm… we want to know about it!

As a reminder: If you are going to be linking to this blog hop, please add a link to this post at the end of your blog post entry stating that it’s a part of this weeks Simple Lives Thursday.